Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by vindarel on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:36PM
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> the one thing unique
it's the developer experience
(and the combination of all features, including homoiconic macros)
> a real world problem
You can solve anything with enough sweat ;)
One example? Routific's core algorithm is written in CL (source: its author on HN). Why not Java, like everybody on his field at this time? Because it was too tedious (there's a blog post somewhere). His prototype evolved in efficient production code, now the heart of the company.
> my thesis: most of that…
agreed on "most". Many features appear here and there in other languages. But there's the parts and the whole.
And the living platform ("stop writing dead programs"), still unique (with Smalltalk).
it's the developer experience
(and the combination of all features, including homoiconic macros)
> a real world problem
You can solve anything with enough sweat ;)
One example? Routific's core algorithm is written in CL (source: its author on HN). Why not Java, like everybody on his field at this time? Because it was too tedious (there's a blog post somewhere). His prototype evolved in efficient production code, now the heart of the company.
> my thesis: most of that…
agreed on "most". Many features appear here and there in other languages. But there's the parts and the whole.
And the living platform ("stop writing dead programs"), still unique (with Smalltalk).